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Minutes, Arts And Sciences Executive Committee Meeting, Thursday, February 28, 2013, Arts And Sciences Executive Committee

Executive Committee Minutes

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A New Floor For The Silenced?: Congolese Hip-Hop In Belgium, Idesbald Goddeeris, Jamina Mertens, Wouter Goedertier, Dominique De Brabanter

Social Transformations Journal of the Global South

Contrary to most other former metropoles, Belgian postcolonial memory does not provoke much turmoil. It is dominated by white narratives, which highlight Congolese gratitude and nostalgia. This article questions this discourse by analyzing hip-hop songs of Congolese artists in Belgium. Many songs deal with the urban context, but the colonial past has recently also become a major topic. Hip-hop songs give voice to hybridity and frustration, criticizing both Belgians and Congolese. Simultaneously, they reveal a great deal of ignorance among Congolese immigrants about their country’s history, for which both Congolese parents and Belgian society are blamed. All in all, hip-hop …

Editor’S Introduction: Memory, The Postcolony, And The Origins Of The Global South, Lisandro E. Claudio

Social Transformations Journal of the Global South

Excerpt: The global south, rather than a fixed geographic location, is better understood as a metaphor for global and interstate inequality. It can be located in between objective circumstances of global injustice and the subjective responses of people to these. On the one hand, realities like the unfair world trade regime lay the conditions for political struggle and social change. On the other hand, responses to these conditions create the political and social movements for whom the term “global south” becomes relevant. As a provisional project, intellectuals and activists on the ground are continually redefining the global south. It would …

“Subaltern” Remembrances: Mapping Affective Approaches To Partition Memory, Jacque Micieli-Voutsinas

Social Transformations Journal of the Global South

Theorizing affect in relationship to interdisciplinary developments among geographies of memory and subaltern studies, this essay engages the visual art of feminist artist, Pritika Chowdhry, in her latest exhibition, Remembering the Crooked Line, in order to understand the migratory nature of cultural memories as a result of global flows. Situating Chowdhry’s aesthetic contributions alongside the work of postcolonial, feminist scholar, Gayatri Spivak in “Can the Subaltern Speak?,” this essay offers a framework for understanding memory production beyond spatially-fixed and geographically bound points of reference, and theorizes how memories are produced across seemingly disparate spaces and geopolitical histories. Thus, corralling multiple …

Carlo Galli. Political Spaces And War. Trans. Elisabeth Fay, Ed. Adam Sitze. Minneapolis: University Of Minnesota Press, 2010. 304 Pp., Nicole Curato

Social Transformations Journal of the Global South

Excerpt: Prior to the book Political Spaces and Global War, Carlo Galli, professore ordinario at the University of Bologna, was only accessible to the English-speaking audience through references on his extensive work on the political thought of Carl Schmitt. However, in his first book translated to English, Schmitt’s conceptualization of the “political” was marginal in Galli’s discussion on the spatiality of contemporary politics. Galli argues that the politico-spatial categories of modernity—Schmitt’s friend-enemy distinction included—are now exhausted and rendered void by globalization.

Sarah Ahmed. The Promise Of Happiness. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010. 315 Pp., Dion Kagan

Social Transformations Journal of the Global South

Excerpt: The Promise of Happiness begins with a discussion of what Sara Ahmed called “the happiness turn” in economics and positive psychology. Books with titles like The Happiness Formula and Happiness and Economics offer to measure the happiness of individuals, groups, or entire nation-states. According to Ahmed, these books expose the performativity of happiness. As both a word and a desired state, happiness does things. Positive psychology, for example, involves “the instrumentalization of happiness as a technique” (10), reifying certain routes to happiness; economic happiness data locates and stratifies the happy over and in relation to unhappy others. Both discourses …

The Observer, Central Washington University

Student Newspaper

Student newspaper for Central Washington University for February 28-March 6, 2013. Vol. 93, No. 8.

The Alestle - Vol. 65 No. 24 - 02/28/2013, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

The Alestle

Vol. 65 No. 24

Student Collaboration And Teacher‐Directed Classroom Dynamic Assessment: A Complementary Pairing, Kristin Davin, Richard Donato

Education: School of Education Faculty Publications and Other Works

This article examines collaboration during small‐group tasks with young language learners studying Spanish. After five days of classroom dynamic assessment (DA) targeting WH‐question formation, students worked in small groups on a collaborative writing task. This research sought to determine whether learners were able to mediate their peers during this task and if so, whether this mediation might be traced back to participation in classroom DA. Findings revealed that students drew upon collective knowledge to complete the task. While the learners did not appropriate forms of mediation used during DA, characteristics such as repetition and first language usage appeared in peer …

Molecular Analysis Of Class Ii Hla-Drb Polymorphism, Haider Hashim Zalzala

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) system is a polymorphic system and the extensive polymorphism of MHC gene in human and the allelic distribution in different ethnic population become a key component in investigating the genetic relations between populations. Geographical variety is one of the factors that affect HLA polymorphism. OBJECTIVE: This study is designed to study class II HLA-DRB polymorphism in Iraqi populations by molecular method. METHODS: Seventy four healthy Arab Iraqi populations were enrolled in this study during the period between November 2012 till April 2013. Direct interview was done with the populations and HLA typing was done …

The Quest For Legitimacy: American Pentecostal Scholars And The Quandaries Of Academic Pursuit, Jonathan Olson

Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies

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Apollo Group V. Chegg, United States District Court For The Southern District Of New York

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

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Easterner, Vol. 64, No. 18, February 27, 2013, Associated Students Of Eastern Washington University

Student Newspapers

This issue of the Esaterner contains articles about the trials of football players Chandler Gayton and Dalis Bruce, the Chicano Education Program, potential locations for lactation rooms, Lobby Day in Olympia, filmmaker Angela Tucker, Wii bowling in the library, the potential end to the debate club, a one-man play by Patrick McManus, the men's and women's basketball seasons, and the track and tennis seasons.

Immigrant Workers, Human Capital Investment And The Shape Of Immigration Reform, Audrey Singer

Brookings Scholar Lecture Series

President Obama's speech in Las Vegas last month kicked off Congressional debates on immigration policy. While border security and illegal immigration are still high profile and thorny issues, slow economic growth following the Great Recession has helped to shift the focus to how the United States can change policy to better suit economic needs. Where do immigrants fit into the labor force, how can they fit better, and what is the likely shape of future policy changes?

The Last Page: Magnetic North, Melanie Brown

Colby Magazine

For Melanie Brown ’13 the journey from Denver to Waterville is about more than just mileage.

Visibility Index Of Social Science Research: A Scientometric Dimension Of Emerging Trends, Bipin Bihari Sethi, Krushna Chandra Panda

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Visualizing into social science research, the present study examines the trend in social science research out put, degree of collaboration in research, extent of authors’ productivity, growth pattern of literature and far-reaching productive regions at length. The central theme of the approach resultantly discovers and indicates the current research process and status at global scenario. Finally, the study shows the researchers participation in research and development, and research out put have set the pace vertically as determining a modern convenience of 21^st century, causes encouragement to novice researchers. Summarizing the consequences of the study it is discovered that, single …

Alumni @ Large

Colby Magazine

Alumni notes

Newsmakers

Milestones

Care Package: Marcia M. Gomez '79 M.D.

Bar None: Craig Jude '99

Animal Planet: Hande Barutcuoglu '05

Obituaries

From The Hill, David Treadwell, Ruth Jacobs, Suzanne Merkelson, David Mckay Wilson, Stephen Collins, David Eaton, Laura Meader

Colby Magazine

A Life-Changing Investment: A gift for financial aid opens Colby's doors for accomplished students

H2O Innovators: Nick Friedman and Brandon Pollock won't be climbing the corporate ladder after graduation, they're already at the top

Chief Justice: For Henry Sockbeson '73, a career spent advancing American Indian rights leads to Tribal Supreme Court

Q&A: National Endowment for the Arts Chair Rocco Landesman '69 on trading Broadway for a national stage, risk in the theater business, the importance of art and artists, and tuning out Glenn Beck

For Guard, Fight Continues at Home (Review)

With Technology, Socialist Workers Still Did the Lifting …

Arsenic In The Soils Of Northwest Oregon, Tracy Ryan Ricker

Dissertations and Theses

One hundred and eighty-six soil samples from Northwest Oregon were tested for arsenic content. The highest values measured were 13.9 ppm in the A horizon (site C4) and 20.4 ppm in the B horizon (Site P4). Arsenic was not detected in 28 A horizon samples and 23 B horizon samples. Data are grouped based on the age and rock type of underlying bedrock. Lithologic groups with six or more data points were compared statistically to ascertain if groups are distinct. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) multiple comparison tests indicate that the arsenic content of the Marine Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks group …

February 26, 2013, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

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Full Issue

Colby Magazine

Colby Magazine vol. 100, no. 1 (Spring 2011): full issue

Views On China: Colbians Offer Varied Perspectives On One Of The World's Most Fascinating Places, Cultures, Economies, Peoples, Martin Connelly

Colby Magazine

Alumni and students with strong ties to China reflect on that vast nation’s fascinating past and fast-changing present.

From The Hill, Diana Mcqueen, Pat Sims, Ruth Jacobs, Stephen Collins, Sally Baker, Patrick Brancaccio, Gerry Boyle

Colby Magazine

Q&A: Lincoln Peirce '85 on his comic strip hero, Big Nate, life as a professional artist, his new book series, and inspiration from the Colby Art Department

The Alchemist: Sculptor Stefanie Rocknak turns wood into captured moments of expression

Trading Campfires for Barbecues: There's more to "cooking COOT" than mixing and masticating

Empowered in Kabul: Sulaiman Nasseri helps Afghan women gain independence through embroidery

At Home on the Range: Willard Wyman's latest novel explores the transitory ideal of the Old West (Review)

Be Careful What You Wish For (Review)

For This Rookie Cop, All the Streets Are Mean (Review)

Recent …

From The Hill, Gerry Boyle, Erika Mailman, Chandra D. Bhimull, Mike Eckel, Stephen Collins

Colby Magazine

Q&A: Jean-Jacques Ndayisenga '13 on economics, giving back, and why there's more to Rwanda than the movie

A Final Note: Machlin conducts farewell concert, ending a 38-year run

"A Great Legacy as a Legendary Prof": Tribute gives Wadsworth Professor of Economics James Meehan a reason to learn how to use Facebook

The Other Side of the Seine: Rosecrans Baldwin's new book recounts his love-hate relationship with the City of Light

Collected from the Punjab, a thousand years of poetry

A Trip to the West Indies--With Historical Baggage

A Firsthand Account of the Life of the Maine Lobster Fisherman

Fast Times: …

2013 February 25

Minutes

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Etsu Visioning Plan 2036 (Draft), The Napa Group, Committee For 125, East Tennessee State University

ETSU 125 - Chapter I: Introduction and Visioning Process

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University Of Northern Iowa Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, February 25, 2013, University Of Northern Iowa. Faculty Senate.

Documents - Faculty Senate

Meeting minutes from the Faculty Senate of the University of Northern Iowa.

University Of Northern Iowa Faculty Senate Meeting Agenda, February 25, 2013, University Of Northern Iowa. Faculty Senate.

Documents - Faculty Senate

Meeting agenda from the Faculty Senate of the University of Northern Iowa.

An Empirical Study Of Supreme Court Justice Pre-Appointment Experience, Benjamin H. Barton

College of Law Faculty Scholarship

This study compares the years of experience that preceded appointment to the Supreme Court for each Justice. The study seeks to demonstrate that the background experiences of the Roberts Court Justices are quite different from the Justices of earlier Supreme Courts and to persuade the reader that this is insalubrious.

Speed Dating: A Process Of Forming Undergraduate Student Groups , Nathalie Collins, Julie Goyder

eCULTURE

First year undergraduate students working on semester-long group assessments may lack the skills and knowledge to make sound choices in selecting other group members. This paper is an instructor’s guide to using speed-dating techniques in a classroom environment to create student groups. The paper also outlines suggestions for lecturers on how to support their students in the experience, based on theoretical constructs around the psychology of choice and work teams.